Carlos Loret de Mola busted AMLO for the last response to his son's “La Casa Gris”: “Implicit Condemnation”

Opposition senators made a Lego-type toy from Casa Gris, the millionaire scandal in which the eldest son of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was involved, who addressed the issue for the last time and assured that what his firstborn son does is not linked to him or his government.

“José Ramón is 40 years old. He's married, he rents a house with his wife for 100,000 pesos a month. I wouldn't do it but he is independent, and he rented it to a private individual,” he said during his morning lecture.

In this regard, Carlos Loret de Mola, one of the leading journalists who released the report by Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, said that the president's statements mean that he accepted that his son's story was wrong.

He also labeled AMLO's words as an “implicit condemnation”, a “demarcation of the performance of his firstborn”, and “the acceptance that the son's luxurious house is a flagrant contradiction to the father's austerity speech.”

He added that if he had started there, because of that response, that reaction when the house became public, “the president would have saved himself the unjustifiable”, among which he highlighted a work that would have been “invented”, and that turned out to be from one of his business advisors, and even built a website without many credentials.

“It would have avoided exposing himself to the world as the autocrat who persecutes the press that questions him, who breaks the limits of the law and is willing to use all the power of the state to persecute any journalist he finds uncomfortable,” Loret de Mola wrote for El Universal.

However, he also considered that the answer came really late and in a way that was not ideal, as it was part of a “presidential outburst, in the face of the stitch of opposition senators to assemble a toy of the eccentric house.”

And finally, Loret reflected whether this is a response that could fit in the controversial cases that have tainted the president's reputation, or whether it was just a “courageous lapse of honesty.”

The so-called Casa Gris of José Ramón López Beltrán, the eldest son of the president of Mexico, rented by Carolyn Adams, his wife, was revealed in a report by Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI).

According to the investigation, José Ramon lived in a huge mansion in Conroe, Texas, owned by Baker Hughes, one of the largest oil companies in the world, later moved to a residence in the town of Cypress in Harris County that is in the name of his wife.

The residence has 447 square meters of construction, according to MCCI, it has fine stone and wood finishes, four bedrooms, four full bathrooms, three parking spaces, kitchen, living room and amenities such as: bar, games room and even cinema room.

According to TruePeopleSearch, it located the residence as Carolyn Adams' domicile since September 2019, at which time the property belonged to Keith L. Schilling, who served as a senior executive of Baker Hughes, the company that has ongoing contracts with the AMLO government for more than 151 million dollars. dollars in works for Pemex.

Earlier, they pointed to an alleged conflict of interest, but the law firm R. McConnell Group conducted an audit in which they thoroughly analyzed the contracts between the two companies, and announced that no conflict of interest or anything irregular was found.

For her part, Beltrán's wife, Carolyn Adams, published through her social networks and various media outlets the contracts and receipts that prove that rented the house in which they now live, and that it is not about their property.

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